wwww. The `globstar' code now skips over symbolic links to directories,
preventing them from being scanned twice.What is the purpose of this change? In bash 4.4, if I wanted to print all the entries in a directory tree, whether it is a file, directory, or symbolic link, I could use shopt -s globstar && printf %s\\n ** Now, I get different results depending on whether the printed result is an unbroken symlink to a directory object. I cannot even print the symlink if it points to an existing directory outside of the directory tree I'm printing. I'm not sure what this was supposed to fix, though, because bash 4.4 didn't recurse into the directory either way. Why this matters: I have an application that used globstar to list files which should be added to a tarball with bsdtar, using a given sort order: https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=b5191ea140386dd9b73e4509ffa9a6d347c1b5fa This change used to work, and now it doesn't. ... #bash pointed out to me that **/* will do what I want on both bash 4 and bash 5, but I'm afraid I totally don't understand what the rules of globstar are supposed to be, or whether changes to the output are intended. The behavior also doesn't really seem to correspond to the manpage. -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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